Kristi Govella is the East Asia Project Director at BASC and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on comparative politics and international relations in East Asia, particularly Japanese political economy and East Asian regional institutional architecture. Her work has been published in Asian Survey and various policy journals. Kristi has also worked at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in addition to participating in Track II activities through the Pacific Forum CSIS and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). She holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Email: kgovella "at" berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.kristigovella.com |